Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business Date: 16 Dec 2024 21:18:06 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <998225ad-dc63-23f8-4e4b-92e76ec29636@example.net> <0186e59b-8801-2a6a-c38c-dc4bbddc86cc@example.net> <19ebc64d-c683-a046-e19b-9cdc51c81226@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DTzno9tgjsbllPNj6IBJMgW+Q7RstFS5viqCN6Hc1UHfGT7YMV Cancel-Lock: sha1:G+2Ezgocf6BWvFQlHJvZFyOXt/M= sha256:rae3iZZCK/ET+5hRqgib9MPz4qxXTTLjl5vQ40kjHpU= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62545 On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:04:19 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 12/15/24 5:10 PM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:08:24 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: >>> >>>> My boss and I looked out and saw that there were no engineer jobs >>>> available in town; LM Ericsson had just closed their US Internet >>>> group and put 300 Internet engineers on the street. So he asked if I >>>> would be willing to join him in a startup. >>> >>> A friend got caught in the Marconi to Ericcson transition. It was fun >>> while it lasted. >>> >>> >> Ahh Ericsson... the only company on the planet that makes the >> government look and feel like a startup with hipsters! > > Hey - Nordic - a different way of thinking. Don't be a bigot now :-) Hey, Nordic Semiconductor does fine work -- but they're Norwegians, not Swedes.